St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-11
WHISPERS.

WHISPERS.
Col. &. A. BROADwATER, of Montana
is gentleman who has been identified
with the West for more years than he
| would care to say, and who is well
| known in st. Paul. Though he has,
worked hard all these years that he has
been aiding in developing the resources
of Montana, the energetic colonel has
not acquired more than a moderate pOr-,
ton Of this worlds goods until compar-
atively recently. He is now easily
millionaire. How did this satisfactory
change come about? Easy enough when
| you know the details. You must know
| that Col. BRoADwATER and President
HILL, of the Manitoba, are firm friends
| of many years standing. Well, when
| few years ago the Northern Pacific rail
road come into Helena it found it deSir-
| Slrable to possess some property which
MIR. BRoADwATER owned, or at least a
portion of it. Negotiations proceeded.
aad Mr.. BRoADWATER had to5
face the disagreeable possibility
| of letting his land go for song or of
| getting nothing at all for it; and more
over of seeing the railroad pass it by at
a distance which would render it prac-
| tically yalueleSS. Mr.. HILL became ac-
| quainted with his predicament and told
| him to let the Northern Pacific ''go to
! thunder" or words to that effect, and
| intimated that lie should lose nothing
/ by it. Col. BROADwATER had conf
| dence in his friend and did as he was
/ told. The negotiations stopped and the
Northern Pacific passed him by. This
| summer the Manitoba entered Helena.
1t crossed BROADwATER's land, part or
/ which it purchased. The rest immedi-
! ately doomed sky high and was sold,
! but at big enough figure to enable Col.
t BROADwATER TO round out his even
! million. Not only that but he has been
| made president of the Montana Central,
| with opportunities for further money
making and for worrying his sworn
! enemy. eX-GOv. HAUSER.
But chances like that don't come very
often.
Apropos of the Manitoba and Helena
! L listened to a prominent jObber, tine
/ other day, who grew red in the face with
the energy required to express his dis
| gust at what he called the simple-mind-
edneSS of the Helena people in holding
such jCllification over the arrival of
the Manitoba at Helena. "ThOse peO-
pie don't know it yet" he said, ''but
some day, and pretty soon, too, they
will find out that JIM HILL is not going
to carry them on his back. He is not
running a railroad for fun or for char
lty, but to make money, and they will
discover that he won't give them
any cheaper rates than they had
before. Not only that. but though
they can't see it, the road is not going
to do them any especial good. 1t is
simply one more feeder. 1t won't do
anything to develop the town, because
it cannot add anything more to the vol
ume of the towns business. 1t will do
far more good to st. Paul, in the new
country tributary to us that it opens up,
than it will to Helena. But the Mon
tanians don't know that. When they
do find out that HILL intends to make
out of them all he can, instead of help
ing them out of any fancied bondage,
there will be howl that will be heard
clear to st. Paul"
Idon't know whether this irate gen
tlema nwaS holder of Northern Pacific
preferred or not.
Perhaps you noticed recently in the
! papers statement to the effect that the
Chicago Tribune, which has always been
a thick and thin supporter of BLAINE.
has recently turned against him, and
now declares that it finds itself unable
to support him. A whisper is waited
from Chicago to the effect that there is
| something more than principle and
politics in this change of front. 1t is
even asserted that the vagarieS of that
mischievous little fellow whom we call
| CUPID is at the bottom of it all. The
story is that love affair eliminating in
an engagement existed for some time
between EMMONS BLAINE, son of
JAMES e., and Miss AIERILL, daughter
of the veteran editor. Everything ran
| cronn4hlx- fnr xxrI,iIn r,p+iI ha r,e
true love was rOughened by a personal
disagreement between young BLAINE
and Mr.. MEDHL, who in the length
to which his anger went declared
that young BLAINE, who is about the
best of the family, should not have his
daughter. Mr.. BLAINE senior natu-
rally took his sons part, and the edi-
tors anger turned against the diStin-
guished sire. Mr.. MEDIIL never does
things by half. and capped the climax
by ordering his paper to oppose Mir.
BLAINE as soon as opportunity Oc-
Cured, which was on the occasion of
ident'S message. And Mr.. MEDILL's
opposition is not a thing of small mo-
ment.
81 know not what the truth may be;
| tell the tale as twas told to me-"
Haven't you often noticed what a thin
veneer of refinement, polish and culture
there frequently is upon those interest
ing persons, the new rich, around
whom the OdOr of greenbackS seems to
cling like the scent of the rose around
the broken vase of which the poet
sings? Well, that reminds the Whis-
perer of recent occurrence. There is
a woman living in city not 1000 miles
from st. Paul whose acquisition of
wealth has been so recent that she has
not yet had time to adapt herself to the
customs and vocabulary of the circle
into which her money has now brought
her. She is very ambitious socially and
entertains a great deal, and she is
especially DESTROYS of having anything
novel at her entertainments. Recently
she heard gentleman speak of party
which he had attended at an Eastern
country house, and he incidentally men-
toned that ice cream was served in a
rotunda. That caught the fancy of
Mrs. NEwRICH at once. She was about
to give small party. So the next day
she fastened down town to the nearest
glassware dealers and told him she
wanted three dozen rOtundaS sent up at
once. Not daring to correct her, though
he recognized the fact that he had
Mrs. MALAPRoP to deal with, the store
keeper sent her to another shop, saying
he was just out of rotundas. She met
with similar experience at the second
and third shops. Finally, beginning to
suspect that something was wrong. she
dropped in book store to consult a die
tionary, and the blush of shame that
suffused her face on discovering that
rOtunda was not something out of which
to eat ices has not yet died out of her
face.
There is a good deal of truth in the
saying that it takes liberal education
to know how to be rich.
Do you know =. y. GROAT, of the
Northern Pacific? If you don't you